Conservative judges revive case on FDA's "you are not a horse" ivermectin posts

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Conservative judges revive case on FDA's "you are not a horse" ivermectin posts     A panel of conservative judges has revived a lawsuit over the Food and Drug Administration's statements about the anti-parasitic and de-worming drug ivermectin—statements meant to clarify that the drug is not effective against COVID-19 and that formulations for animals, including livestock, are not safe for use in humans. Continued here

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How Our Brains Decide When to Trust     Trust is the enabler of global business — without it, most market transactions would be impossible. It is also a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Employees in high-trust companies are more productive, are more satisfied with their jobs, put in greater discretionary effort, are less likely to search for new jobs, and even are healthier than those working in low-trust companies. Businesses that build trust among their customers are rewarded with greater loyalty and higher sales. And negotiators who build trust with each other are more likely to find value-creating deals. Continued here

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The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath's Haunting Portrait of Depression     “This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.” Continued here

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See Ten Breathtaking Images From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest     The highly commended shots call to mind both the wonders of the animal kingdom and the risks wild creatures faceIn varied habitats around the world, from icy lakes in China to Indonesian coral reefs, wildlife photographers pull back the curtain on animal behavior, providing a glimpse into the creatures’ usually secretive lives. Continued here

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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet     No one alive has seen a race like the 2024 presidential election. For months, if not years, many people have expected a reprise of the 2020 election, a matchup between the sitting president and a former president.But that hasn’t prevented a crowded primary. On the GOP side, more than a dozen candidates are ostensibly vying for the nomination. Donald Trump’s lead appears prohibitive, but then again, no candidate has ever won his party’s nomination while facing four (so far) separate felony indictments. (Then again, no one has ever lost his party’s nomination while facing four separate felony indictments either.) Ron DeSantis has not budged from his position as the leading challenger to Trump, but his support has weakened, encouraging a large field of Republicans who are hoping for a lucky break, a Trump collapse, a VP nomination, or maybe just some fun travel and a cable-news contract down the road. Continued here

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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking | Quanta Magazine     Algorithms have become ubiquitous. They optimize our commutes, process payments and coordinate the flow of internet traffic. It seems that for every problem that can be articulated in precise mathematical terms, there's an algorithm that can solve it, at least in principle.But that's not the case — some seemingly simple problems can never be solved algorithmically. The pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing proved the existence of such "uncomputable" problems nearly a century ago, in the same paper where he formulated the mathematical model of computation that launched modern computer science. Continued here

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YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate's videos, court says     A prominent anti-vaccine activist, Joseph Mercola, yesterday lost a lawsuit attempting to force YouTube to provide access to videos that were removed from the platform after YouTube banned his channels. Continued here

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Strategic Alignment With AI and Smart KPIs     Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.This article series presents findings from the seventh annual global research study on artificial intelligence and business strategy by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. In spring 2023, we fielded a global survey and subsequently analyzed records from 3,043 respondents representing more than 25 industries and 100 countries. We also interviewed 17 executives leading AI initiatives in a broad range of companies and industries, including financial services, media and entertainment, retail, travel and transportation, and life sciences. Continued here

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What Having a "Growth Mindset" Actually Means     Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference — improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: People sometimes distort ideas and therefore fail to reap their benefits. This has started to happen with my research on “growth” versus “fixed” mindsets among individuals and within organizations. Continued here

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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail     Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In almost every case, the goal has been to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing the way business is conducted. A few of these endeavors have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. Continued here

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4 Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control     Authentication service Okta said four of its customers have been hit in a recent social-engineering campaign that allowed hackers to gain control of super administrator accounts and from there weaken or entirely remove two-factor authentication protecting accounts from unauthorized access. Continued here

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Dealmaster: Garmin watches, Lenovo ThinkPads, Apple MacBooks, and more     We're at the tail end of summer, but that doesn't mean your fitness goals have to end after Labor Day. Now that Garmin has launched its latest Venu 3 and Venu 3S smartwatches, select models of the company's older and still excellent Venu 2 series are now on sale. Given Garmin's great track record of bringing new features to older wearables through future software updates, the older Venu 2 will likely gain access to the more accurate sleep-tracking capabilities of the newer watch models. So if you don't need hardware-specific features, like a built-in microphone to take Bluetooth calls on your wrist, going with some of Garmin's older sports watches could save you money. In addition to Garmin wearables, we also have deals on Lenovo laptops and mobile workstations, Apple MacBooks, Steelcase and Tempurpedic office chairs, and more in this post-Labor Day Dealmaster. Continued here

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Seeing this Pong chip has me finding excuses to visit Rochester's Strong Museum     Most of my friends in upstate New York, when trying to entice me into a return visit, send pictures of chicken wings, summer days at human-tolerable temperatures, or houses that don't cost more than their parents might have made in their lifetimes. Continued here

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How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind     The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.In the spring of 1814, 25 years after the ratification of America’s Constitution, a group of 112 Norwegian men—civil servants, lawyers, military officials, business leaders, theologians, and even a sailor—gathered in Eidsvoll, a rural village 40 miles north of Oslo. For five weeks, while meeting at the manor home of the businessman Carsten Anker, the men debated and drafted what is today the world’s second-oldest written constitution. Continued here

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Okay, the 1980s Lakers Were Great--What Else?     HBO’s streaming show about the “Showtime” era is doing too much in its second season, without saying anything of consequence.In the first season of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, it took five episodes before anyone played a professional game of basketball. The HBO show, created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, dramatizes the “Showtime” Los Angeles Lakers, a dominant team whose reign began with the drafting of Magic Johnson in 1979 and continued through the ’80s, expanding the NBA’s reach and transforming basketball into a television powerhouse to rival baseball and football in America. But its first season was only so interested in the actual on-court competition. Instead, the show trudged through locker-room rivalries, boardroom subplots, and the business machinations of the owner, Jerry Buss, before finally staging a tip-off halfway through, for Magic’s first Lakers game. Continued here

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Spicy curried mung bean sprouts     Ruta Kahate is a woman on a mission to demystify Indian cooking – particularly Indian spices – for an American audience.This cookbook author, chef and restaurateur wants people to know that it is possible to make Indian food "without a gazillion spices". This is why she chose just six of them to star in her latest book, 6 spices, 60 dishes: Indian Recipes That are Simple, Fresh, and Big on Taste, published in January 2023. The book is a follow up to 5 spices 50 dishes, her 2007 book that went out of print a couple of years ago. As she explained, "People are intimidated by spices, or they are just unsure and don't know how to use them." Continued here

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Here's what we know about a mysterious launch from Florida this week     Airspace and maritime navigation warnings released to pilots and mariners suggest the US military might launch a hypersonic missile this week on a test flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Continued here

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What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life     “We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.” Continued here

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"AI took my job, literally"--Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator     Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and began to replace their work with AI translations of English-language articles, reports The Verge. Continued here

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How Telling People to Die Became Normal     In 2020, a man from West Virginia decided not to cancel his Thanksgiving plans, even though the coronavirus pandemic was in one of its deadliest seasons in the United States. On Facebook, he’d written something vague about not buying into the media’s “narrative.” A year later, just before Christmas, his wife was dead from COVID-19. He posted again on Facebook, asking for prayers for his children as they faced a sad holiday without their mom.At this point, someone, maybe one of the man’s friends, took screenshots of the posts about these two events and submitted them to the “Herman Cain Award” Facebook page, where an administrator shared them and linked to the man’s profile. “Comments are open [and] his page is mostly public …” someone wrote. This meant that the man could be targeted by the group’s members, who dedicate themselves—along with their compatriots on a Reddit forum with the same name—to lambasting “COVIDIOTS,” people who died of COVID-19 after denying its existence or downplaying its potential harms. The “award” was named for the Tea Party personality Herman Cain, who was such a person. Continued here

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You Already Got Into Yale     Arrow Zhang came to Yale last fall eager to try new things. In high school, she had spent most of her free time writing and practicing piano, but at Yale, she envisioned dividing her time between activities as disparate as finance and international relations. Zhang did not anticipate how competitive Yale’s clubs would be.She quickly learned that, not unlike the admissions process to the university itself, entrance to student clubs often requires written applications and interviews. She filled her Google Calendar with hours of info sessions and application tasks. After more than a month of nonstop auditions, applications, interviews, and even tests, Zhang found herself rejected from multiple clubs, including ones that had no obvious reason to be selective. Most of the clubs she was able to join—The Yale Herald, a dance group, the clock-tower bell-ringers —involved skills she’d already honed in high school. Continued here

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Sony copyright claims for Bewitched spell trouble for group that preserves old TV [Updated]     [Update at 6:56 pm ET: It looks like Rick Klein will be able to keep the YouTube channel running. Sony's copyright office emailed Klein after this article was published, saying it would "inform MarkScan to request retractions for the notices issued in response to the 27 full-length episode postings of Bewitched" in exchange for "assurances from you that you or the Fuzzy Memories TV Channel will not post or re-post any infringing versions from Bewitched or other content owned or distributed by SPE [Sony Pictures Entertainment] companies." Continued here

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Starfield's missing Nvidia DLSS support has been added by a free mod     Since its initial release on Friday, the "Starfield Upscaler" is currently the most popular Starfield mod listed on clearinghouse NexusMods. That should be welcome news to a significant portion of the PC gaming community running a newer Nvidia GPU that supports the frame-rate-enhancing upscaling technology. That's especially true for the Nvidia owners who were outraged when Bethesda announced an official Starfield partnership with AMD this summer. Continued here

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The Novel That Helped Me Understand American Culture     The Bell Jar provided an emotional context for a country I found alluring as a teenager growing up abroad.Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, I spent many of my waking hours reading American young-adult books, rigorously studying the mechanics of American teenage life. These books weren’t always beautifully written, but I loved them all the same, the way another kid might have loved dinosaurs: I was compelled by their exoticism; their observations about proms, parking lots, and malls; their descriptions of what girls in the U.S. ate and how they lived. None of it had anything to do with me, so I was surprised when, at 16, I saw myself in Esther Greenwood, the heroine of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and a thinly veiled avatar for Plath herself. Plath’s acerbic prose paralyzed me with envy; her novel unlocked a sorrowful and rage-filled side to a language I had only experienced as functional and rigid. Continued here

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Divers Pull Wreckage of Tuskegee Airman's Plane From the Depths of Lake Huron     Frank Moody was only 22 when he crashed his plane into Lake Huron. The year was 1944, and Moody, a second lieutenant and member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, died during a training exercise when the aircraft’s machine guns malfunctioned, badly damaging the propeller.A few months later, his body washed ashore near Port Huron. His plane, however, lay scattered in pieces on the floor of the lake for decades. Continued here

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Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2023     The winning entries in this year’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition were just announced, with Jack Zhi named as the overall winner for his image of a falcon defending its nest. Competition organizers were once again kind enough to share some of the other winners here, in eight different categories, selected from a field of more than 20,000 entries. Grab the Bull by the Horns. Grand Prize Winner and Gold Winner, Bird Behavior. During the breeding season, a female peregrine falcon fiercely protects her young, attacking anything that comes near the nest. For four years, I attempted to capture these rare moments of her attacking large brown pelicans with incredible speed and agility. The high-speed chase made it challenging to capture a close-up shot with a long lens. # Continued here

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A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida     The governor championed rules that bar frank discussions of racist violence—like the one he offered in the aftermath of a mass shooting—in the state’s schools.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis does not often find himself attempting to deliver a unifying message, but in the aftermath of the killing of three Black Floridians by an alleged white supremacist in Jacksonville last week, he tried. Continued here

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Why not all urban foxes deserve their 'bin-raiding' reputation     Ever since their colonisation of British cities sometime during the last century, urban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) have become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon. Some people love them for their striking marmalade coats but others, including former prime minister Boris Johnson, think of them as a menace.In recent times, people seem to think urban foxes are becoming bolder and more cunning, “wreaking havoc in central London” by scavenging in bins for food scraps. But our recent study suggests that this popular portrayal may only be partially true for the species. Continued here

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Feeling lonely? Too many of us are. Here's what our supermarkets can do to help     Even before COVID-19, social isolation and loneliness were all too common across the community. Living among millions of other people is no comfort for people in cities, where the pace of life is often hectic, and technology and digitisation often limit, rather than help with, social interaction. For some, a weekly shopping trip may be the only chance to interact with others. A supermarket chain in the Netherlands is helping to combat loneliness with so-called “slow” checkouts where chatting is encouraged. Could a similar approach work here? Continued here

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The Killer review: David Fincher's latest film is a dud     In the first minute of David Fincher's The Killer, there's a line that could have been put there especially for critics to scribble in their notepads, just in case it might prove useful. "If you are unable to endure boredom," says Michael Fassbender in a murmuring voiceover, "this work isn't for you." Initially, it seems unlikely that any reviewer might use that line. The director of Fight Club, Zodiac and The Social Network, Fincher doesn't generally make boring films, and this one is a hitman thriller based on a French graphic novel, and scripted by Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote the screenplay for Seven. You'd assume it would be the least boring of the lot.But that assumption is shaken during the lengthy opening sequence. Fassbender's unnamed freelance assassin is sitting in a bare unused office across the road from a swanky hotel in Paris. While he waits for his target to check in, he checks his rifle, does his exercises, takes some naps and buys some food, all the while droning on about his career and his philosophy in soporific voiceover. In scene after scene, he trots out statistics, quotes and banal maxims, like a stoner at a party, until it seems as if he could be the first ever hitman whose principal modus operandi is to bore his victims to death. Continued here